Auburn basketball snuck into the NCAA Match by incomes their twentieth win of the season on the ultimate day of normal season play, and their reward will likely be enjoying in some of the attention-grabbing matchups of the primary spherical.
No. 9 seed Auburn will sq. off with No. 8 seed Iowa within the first spherical of the NCAA event on Thursday night at Legacy Area in Birmingham. Taking part in within the 8-9 sport is normally intriguing in itself, however CBS’ David Cobb feels that there’s one other issue that can attract viewers.
Cobb ranked each NCAA Match opening-round matchup and has positioned Auburn-Iowa at No. 3 on the checklist, trailing solely Arkansas-Illinois and Texas A&M–Penn State as the very best matchups within the first spherical. He says that Auburn’s guards, in addition to the teaching matchup, ought to present high quality leisure to the school basketball fan.
Should you’re into seeing coaches act like kids, you’ll love this one. We’ll set the over/below on coach technicals at a cautious 1.5 and gained’t be stunned if both Auburn’s Bruce Pearl or Iowa’s Fran McCaffery get tossed for his or her antics. The Hawkeyes are a enjoyable offensive workforce led by a possible first-round NBA Draft choose in Kris Murray, and Auburn’s backcourt of Wendell Inexperienced and Ok.D. Johnson is fixed chaos.
The chaos of the No. 8 Iowa- No. 9 Auburn matchup will tipoff at 5:45 p.m. CT on Thursday night on TNT.